Distilling apparatus



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Patented Mar. I4, |899.

H. E. SMITH.

DISTILLING APPARATUS.

(Applicion led Mar. 5, 1898.)

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HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISTILLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,166, dated March 14, 1899.

Application led March 5, 1898.

To @ZZ whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Distilling Apparatus, which improvementis fully set forth in the following speciiication and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in distilling apparatus, and has for its object the improvement in the quality and flavor of thel liquor, the invention consisting of means for accomplishing said object, as will be hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims that follow the specification.

Figure l represents a vertical section of a portion of a distilling apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a View of a part of the same detached and shown on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a portion of a distilling apparatus which in general respects may be similar to that shown in the Letters Patent of the United States No. 230,901, granted to me on the 10th day of August, 1880. In said apparatus there is mounted the hollow shaft B, with which are connected the foraminous baskets O, alternating with which are the funnels D, which are open at top and bottom and connected with the inner casing or cylinder E, whereby the liquor is ejected from said baskets by centrifugal action in the form of spray and directed against the casing E and then caused to flow into the funnels, and so on throughout the series of baskets and funnels to the bottom of the casing.

F designates a series of nozzles which project into the casing E and are connected with the branch or distributing pipe G, whose ends are connected with the main or conveying pipe or Hue H, the latter being in communication with the retort J, which is suitably supported adjacent to the apparatus independent of the casing, whereby it is accessible from without and may be there manipulated, said pipe H being adapted to have vapor or gas from said retort pass therethrough when s0 desired, it being provided with the damper or valve K, while the pipe G is provided with the damper or valve L. To the inner face of the casin g there are secured the senti No. 672,644. oro man.)

hoods M, which overhang the adjacent ends of the nozzle and extend, preferably, in inclined direction downwardly thereover.

The retort is adapted for the formation of a vapor or gas which is of a nature to improve the quality and flavor of the liquor and age the same, said vapor or gas when generated entering the pipe H, the dampers K and L being respectively closed oradj usted and then discharging through the nozzles or branches F into the casing E, where it is injected against and into the liquor, which, being chieiiy in the form of spray, is effectively impregnated with said vapor or gas, thus causing it to partake of the nature of the latter with the improvement in iiavor resulting therefrom.

The dampers act as valves and when both are opened the vapor or gas instead of entering the casing passes through the pipe H into the atmosphere or elsewhere, as desired.

As the liquor is ejected from the baskets O against the casing E the hoods M prevent the adjacent open ends of the nozzles F from being iilled or clogged by said liquor, which, as is evident, is caused to iiow over said hoods and so be directed into the funnels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A casing, a rotary spraying device therein and a vapor-generator, in combination with a pipe leading from said generator and having a discharge-opening in the side thereof facing the discharge side of said rotary spraying device.

2. A casing, a rotary spraying device and a vapor-generator, in combination with a flue leading from said generator, a distributingpipe having its ends connected with said iiue, and a Valve in said pipe and flue, said pipe having a discharge-opening in its side facing the discharge side of said rotary spraying device.

3. In a distilling apparatus of the character stated, a casing, a rotary spraying device therein, a Vaporgenerator, a pipeV leading from said generator having a discharge-opening facing the discharge side of said rotary spraying device and a hood in said casing overhanging said opening.

' HAMILTON E. SMITH. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. C. WIEDERSHEIM.

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